"I was on the smaller side, I was on the skinny side. I was on the nerd side. Think about that. I wasn't the athlete. I wasn't necessarily the smartest," he said.

But Woodfin found a way to navigate through it and rise above it. He reached out to WBRC after seeing our special reports on the topic and while he encourages those being bullied and condems those doing it, his main message is for another group.

"The people who it doesn't affect can't be silent to it or add on to it," Woodfin said. "Just because we see people get in the mud doesn't mean we need to sit on the sideline and watch it. We can blow the whistle, we can wave the flag. We can say, 'Time out, this is bad, we can do better.'"